In solidarity with the other protests, I will not be interacting online for the day of Wednesday, January 18, 2011. That means no e-mails, no Facebook, no Twitter — no contact at all. If I were better at this technology, I’d actually turn my page off for the day. But if I did that, I’m not entirely sure I could get the page right back up on the following day. So, this post acknowledging the protest will have to do. (Though it breaks my heart not to have a picture — which is part of the point — for my post today.) Edit: I’ve found a black out plugin. Hopefully, I can turn it back off, if it fails to do so itself.

Here’s a salient bit from Wikipedia about why this is being done:

“Although the bills have been amended since their introduction, they are still deeply problematic. Among other serious problems in the current draft of the bills, the requirement exists for US-based sites to actively police links to purported infringing sites. These kinds of self-policing activities are non-sustainable for large, global sites – including ones like Wikipedia. The legislative language is ambiguous and overly broad, even though it touches on protected speech. Congress says it’s trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the “cure” that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease.”

Heck, you might join the protest and disconnect for a day yourself. (And those of you who really need me, you should know my phone number by now anyway.)

See you back online on Thursday.

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http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/2010/02/new-mailing-list-sign-up-now/#commentsMon, 08 Feb 2010 06:21:37 +0000http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/?p=494In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve got a new Mailing List Signup box on the right (below my picture). This is the way I’ll be cluing in my friends and fans on upcoming plans and cool promotions – the first of which is likely to be a story giveaway (probably before Valentine’s Day — though unrelated to it).

So now’s the time to sign up, if you haven’t already. I promise not to bug you more than a couple of times a month.

If you think you may have signed up for my far-less-efficient (and easy) mailing list in the past, you should be getting an email announcing the new list by Feb. 12, 2010. If you don’t get a mailing by then, sign up!

Clear? Good.

Talk to you all soon.

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http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/2009/12/new-wordpress-same-site/#respondWed, 30 Dec 2009 20:48:15 +0000http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/?p=480Just updated the site to the latest version of WordPress. No other changes yet, but we’ll see what happens in the next days and weeks. Suggestions? Does the site need a new look and layout? Contact me by clicking my picture at the top of the site.
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http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/2008/07/a-pic-a-logo/#respondTue, 22 Jul 2008 05:05:16 +0000http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/?p=68Experimenting with putting pix in the blog

And trying to get them into the sidebar.

Walkabout Logo.

Next up…

Recent picture of me.

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http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/2008/07/workign-on-the-switch/#respondSun, 20 Jul 2008 19:29:03 +0000http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/?p=17After a couple of days just looking and thinking, I’m back working at the switch-over to the new site. If I’ve figured out what I’m doing, I may have this site live by the end of the day — though it will still require more work to port over all the existing stuff. I have, at least, figured out how to link to other pages without sending my readers away from this page. It’s a start.
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http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/2008/07/second-day-of-the-switch/#respondWed, 16 Jul 2008 18:22:07 +0000http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/?p=12Well, here we are on day two and I’ve figured out how to get the site to vaguely resemble my old site. I’m sure that once I get it all done, this will be easier to update than the old one — and hopefully as easy to update as the sites I’ve got set up on Blogger.com. Cross your fingers and we’ll see.
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http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/2008/07/hello-world/#respondTue, 15 Jul 2008 20:54:34 +0000http://stephendsullivan.com/wordpress/?p=1As of today, I’m beginning the switch-over from my old, Front Page-based web, to this new, WordPress-based web. I’m sure there will be bumps and glitches, but — once it’s done — my site should be better than ever. Thanks for your support — and your patience!
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